The Purple-Robed Celestial Master has turned into a zombie?! Who can stand that?!

Chapter 230 The Ancestral Master gave me nine divinations that day.
After the female Daoyuan finished calling herself, she encountered a dead body.

The old Taoist priest recognized the zombie and hung up the phone in fear. His eyelids kept twitching uncontrollably.

He had a feeling that disaster was about to strike, but he didn't understand why he felt that way.

Logically speaking, the unlucky one should be the female Daoist who encountered the Earthly Zombie. I am so far away from that female Daoist now, so no matter what, it shouldn't be my turn to be unlucky.

The old Taoist priest couldn't understand it, so he decided to cast a divination for himself.

Generally speaking, doctors do not treat themselves, and divination does not apply to oneself.

The meaning is: even the most skilled doctors are generally unable to govern themselves, and even the most accurate fortune tellers rarely tell their own fortunes.

They believed that fortune-telling was essentially equivalent to revealing heavenly secrets.

When you tell someone's fortune, you're looking at their fate. Even if you know their fate, as long as you don't reveal everything and give a little hint, it won't have any impact.

But if you tell your own fortune, that's a different story. It's like seeing through your future destiny, like giving yourself a cheat code.

This world is like a large game, and everyone is a player. Taoists are like beta testers, and the Heavenly Dao is basically a testing system.

You're just a beta tester, giving others cheats and occasionally changing their fates. As long as you don't violate any principles, the heavens will turn a blind eye.

But if you use a wallhack to see through walls and the system detects it, won't they ban your account?

Therefore, people usually consult fortune tellers for themselves, which usually comes at a huge cost; they generally don't consult fortune tellers for themselves.

Constantly losing health and having bad luck for years on end – who can stand that?

This is also why the divination does not consider oneself.

But now, the old Taoist priest was very uneasy. He couldn't care less about anything else. Let his health bar be deducted, let bad luck be bad luck. He needed to know why he was so uneasy.

So he took out the tortoise shell next to him.

Then, copper coins were placed inside, and the divination began.

This method of fortune-telling using tortoise shells and copper coins is called the Coin Divination.

The Money Hexagram, also known as the Sixty-Four Hexagrams of Money, is traditionally attributed to King Wen of Zhou and is therefore also called the King Wen Sixty-Four Hexagrams.

The Coin Divination method originally involved using three copper coins for divination. Each time three coins were tossed, one line was obtained. After tossing six times, six lines were obtained, which were arranged into a hexagram, one of the sixty-four hexagrams of the Coin Divination method. The resulting Coin Divination hexagram could be used to predict good or bad fortune.

Some highly skilled Taoist priests can glean a great deal of information from divination using coins.

It can even predict the future and calculate the past and present.

Physiognomists and Taoist priests who are well-versed in divination and divination are extremely skilled in fortune telling, and their abilities are unpredictable and beyond belief.

For example, the famous Tui Bei Tu from the Tang Dynasty.

The Tui Bei Tu is the first extraordinary book of prophecy in China. Legend has it that it was commissioned by Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, to calculate the fate of the Tang Dynasty. He ordered two famous astrologers, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, to compile it.

Li Chunfeng used the I Ching and Bagua to make calculations, but he unexpectedly became addicted to it and couldn't stop. He even managed to predict the fate of the Longguo Kingdom for more than 2000 years after the Tang Dynasty.

Later, Yuan Tiangang pushed him on the back and said, "Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed any further. Let's go back and rest." Thus, this prophetic book was named "Tui Bei Tu" (Pushing Back Diagram).

The Tui Bei Tu contains sixty images, each accompanied by a prophecy and a regulated poem, predicting major events in Chinese history from the Tang Dynasty to the future world peace.

Of course, this old Taoist priest's divination skills were far inferior to those of Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang.

But considering one's own fate is enough.

The old Taoist priest shook the tortoise shell, infusing it with a wisp of spiritual energy, and began to cast a divination.
Several copper coins were tossed out from the tortoise shell.

After several attempts to cast the hexagram, the resulting hexagram was obtained.

Looking at the final divination result, the old Taoist priest's face turned green.

It looks terrible because the divination result is bad.

The hexagram is the inauspicious hexagram in the I Ching - Ze Shui Kun (困卦)!

The hexagram Ze Shui Kun (困) consists of a lake (泽) on the outside and water (水) on the inside.

The hexagram Ze Shui Kun (泽水困) suggests a state of abundance, but in reality, the water has all drained to the bottom of the lake, leaving the lake itself dry. This threatens the lives of fish and shrimp in the lake, thus the hexagram Kun symbolizes a predicament. As the first line of the hexagram says, a person is trapped in a deep mountain forest, unable to emerge for three years, facing a difficult situation. Generally speaking, the Kun hexagram indicates that everything is difficult to accomplish, and all endeavors seem to lead to a dead end.

In terms of finances, they will not only be strapped for cash, but may even go bankrupt and become destitute.

It seems my intuition was right; the first divination I did for myself was extremely unlucky!

The old Taoist priest took a deep breath, and the next second, he knelt directly in front of the Three Pure Ones.

The old Taoist priest picked up the copper coins from the ground again and put them into the tortoise shell. He looked at the statue of the Three Pure Ones and said, "Grandmaster, I know that I have committed grave sins. Today I suddenly feel that a great calamity is about to befall me. I do not know whether it is good or bad. I hope that the Grandmaster will enlighten me!"

After saying that, the old Taoist priest cast a divination for himself.

Looking at the hexagram that appeared again.

The old Taoist priest's face grew even uglier.

This hexagram is also an inauspicious one.

Jian Gua!

The inauspicious hexagram in the I Ching - Water over Mountain (蹇卦)
The hexagram Shui Shan Jian (Water Mountain Difficulty) consists of water as the outer trigram and mountain as the inner trigram.

Water freezes on the mountain, and the high mountains are covered with thick snow. Crawling through the ice and snow is extremely difficult, making it not only hard to move an inch but also incredibly painful.

Two consecutive divinations indicating great misfortune?

The old Taoist priest's hands started to tremble.

He quickly picked up the copper coins from the ground and shook them again.

the third time,
The inauspicious hexagram in the I Ching - Water over Thunder (屯卦)
The Water-Thunder Tun hexagram is the third hexagram in the I Ching. The outer trigram is water, representing a pit or entrapment; the inner trigram is thunder. The Zhen trigram is trapped under the water, indicating that the power of thunder is hindered and there is a risk to life.

This is an extremely inauspicious omen.

The old Taoist priest looked at the divination result and broke out in a cold sweat.

He cast the hexagram again.

The fifth hexagram: Ze Shui Kun (Lake over Water)
The sixth hexagram: Water over Thunder (屯)
The seventh hexagram: Ze Shui Kun (Lake over Water)
The eighth hexagram: Ze Shui Kun (Lake over Water)
The ninth hexagram...

……

The old Taoist priest, not believing in superstition, cast nine hexagrams in a row, performing nine divinations for himself.

However, the result he received was that all nine hexagrams were inauspicious.

The old Taoist priest was completely numb.

This is outrageous, it's ridiculous!

What kind of Taoist version of Chen Guilin?
You asked the patriarch for nine divination results, and the patriarch gave you nine inauspicious ones, right?

This move was indeed a clear indication.

Grandmaster: I'll give you nine ominous hexagrams. Do you understand now?
The old Taoist priest knew he was in deep trouble and that his life was about to end.

He felt as if all his strength had been drained away, and he collapsed to the ground, motionless.

He knew that this was Heaven's will to take him away.

Sure enough, the next second, a fierce wind arose and dark clouds roared outside the Money Temple.

A huge black wind blew open all the gates of the Taoist temple.

Inside the temple, many Taoist priests were terrified.

Not knowing what was happening, they looked up and suddenly saw a large patch of dark clouds gathering in the sky.

A zombie, carrying a female Taoist priestess, looked down at the Money Temple below.

Zhang Tianlu arrived in response to the divination.

(End of this chapter)